Basically they are acting like the sort of third world country that does grandiose vanity projects. Having lived in one that went through a phase of that (Sri

Basically they are acting like the sort of third world country that does grandiose vanity projects. Having lived in one that went through a phase of that (Sri Lanka) it strikes me that this is yet another way in which the UK is becoming more like Sri Lanka (all bad ways - not the things that are good about the latter). I see it in education too, for example.